Read vs Indicate - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.i:
(transitive, or, intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
* 1661 , ,
(transitive, or, intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a ''to'' phrase or an indirect object.
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, chapter=1 To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc.
To consist of certain text.
Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); (used to introduce an emendation of a text).
* 1832 , John Lemprière et al., Bibliotheca classica , Seventh Edition, W. E. Dean,
(informal, usually, ironic) .
* 2009 , Suzee Vlk et al., The GRE Test for Dummies , Sixth Edition, Wiley Publishing, ISBN 978-0-470-00919-2,
(telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
(British) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
(computing) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
(obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
* (William Tyndale)
(obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.iv:
(transgenderism) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
(read)
A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
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* Philip Larkin, Self's the Man
* 2006 , MySQL administrator's guide and language reference (page 393)
To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
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*:With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon , river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.
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, title= To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies.
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To signal in a vehicle the desire to turn right or left.
To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator.
*1903', "How to '''indicate an engine" in ''The Star Improved Steam Engine Indicator , p.64:
*:To a person who is familiar with the use of an indicator, whether it be of one make or another, it is needless to give instructions as to how an engine should be indicated ,.
*1905 , Power , Vol.25, p.448:
*:I found it fully as easy to indicate an engine at a speed of 320 to 340 revolutions as at 80.
*1905 , Central Station , Vol.5, p.76:
*:An indicator will give the working of these valves at all times and soon return its cost in higher engine efficiency. The day has passed when it was only the expert who could indicate an engine or afford to own an indicator.
As a noun read
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to point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.read
English
(wikipedia read)Verb
- But now, faire Ladie, comfort to you make, / And read / That short reuenge the man may ouertake […].
The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
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- The passage reads differently in the earlier manuscripts.
- That sentence reads strangely.
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- In , it is nearly certain that for Pylleon we should read Pteleon, as this place is mentioned in connection with Antron.
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- Eliminate illogical (read : stupid) answer choices.
- to read''' a hard disk; to '''read''' a port; to '''read the keyboard
- Therefore, I read thee, get to God's word, and thereby try all doctrine.
- But read how art thou named, and of what kin.
Usage notes
* When "read" is used transitively with an author's name as the object, it generally means "to look at writing(s) by (the specified person)" (rather than "to recognise (the specified person) as transgender"). Example: "I am going to read Milton before I read His Dark Materials'', so I know what ''His Dark Materials is responding to."Synonyms
* (look at and interpret letters or other information) interpret, make out, make sense of, understand, scan * (speak aloud words or other information that is written) read aloud, read out, read out loud, speak * (be able to hear) copy, hear, receive * (make a study of) learn, study, look upAntonyms
* (to be recognised as transgender) passDerived terms
* beread * cold read * dictated but not read * have one's head read * lip read/lip-read * mind-read * misread * overread * read along * read between the lines * read dating * read for * read my lips * read-only * read out * read over * read somebody like a book * read somebody the riot act * read someone's mind * read the green * read through * read up * readable * reader * reading * RTFM * sight read * speed-read * underread * unread * WORM/Write Once Read Many * well-readNoun
(en noun)- One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read .
- And when he finishes supper / Planning to have a read at the evening paper / It's Put a screw in this wall — / He has no time at all
- In other words, the system can do 1200 reads per second with no writes, the average write is twice as slow as the average read, and the relationship is linear.
Derived terms
(Terms derived from the noun "read") * cold read * read-out, readoutSee also
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Verb
(indicat)citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
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